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Comparing Baba And Amir In The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

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The relationship between Baba and Amir in the Kite Runner Written by Khaled Hosseini, is a novel about growing up in Afghanistan during the Civil War, and later moving to America as Afghan immigrants. Throughout the novel, the relationship between fathers and son plays an important role. Baba and Amir’s relationship constantly changes in the novel from childhood to adulthood. During Amir’s childhood in Afghanistan, Amir and Baba differences causes them to have a very distinct relationship, however in the inside they both are closely related as they gone against each other through on Baba beliefs. Even though Amir spends most of his childhood trying to live up his father expectations, Baba never feels the father and son connection that Amir truly believes in. As seen early on in the story, Baba and Amir personalities and preferences are very different from each others. Amir is a lonely, innocent, and insecure boy while Baba is confident and a …show more content…

Amir, being a young boy tries on helping Baba with all of the chores and eventually go to the flea market on the weekends to sell stuff on whatever they find to earn money. According to Hosseini, “Amir can bury memories“ (136). Amir tries on starting a new chapter with his dad in order for them to appreciate each other more. During their stay in America, there is almost a reversal in roles between the two. Amir is trying to be more confident and persistent, while Baba feels out of place and lost for his homeland. Amir is the confident enough that he tries to be more like a leader who stands up for himself, like when he stands his ground after deciding to take a major in English. Both Amir and Baba lives have changed when they flew to America that they start to have a more proper relationship. Amir has been getting good at reading and writing poetry that eventually he starts to write his first

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Baba’s fluctuating relationship with his son is a key moment in The Kite Runner. Baba is portrayed as a very powerful, masculine, figure whereas Amir is depicted as being weaker and less masculine. Amir’s winning of the kite tournament resulted in a drastic change in his father-son relationship. “A hundred kites… and the only one still flying at the end of the day was Amir’s. He has the last kite at home, a beautiful blue kite”

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Amir retells the narrative of his life, he measures every occasion against his transgression, his double-crossing of Hassan. As we learn towards the novel's end, Amir is not by any means the only character who needs recovery, Assef regardless. Until Rahim Khan uncovers Baba's mystery, Amir supposes he is the main miscreant among his family and companions. Indeed, even before Amir sells out him, Hassan makes him feel remorseful just by being such an upright 5 individual. Amir is continually attempting to measure up to Baba, on the grounds that he doesn't understand that Baba is so difficult on him in light of his blame over his own wrongdoing.

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